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by sailfast 7y ago
I’d go further and say “marginal net revenue” rather than the gross. Using a revenue number for this makes no sense. Let’s ignore for now that this revenue also owes a great deal to the commons that is never paid back by most companies.
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by sailfast 7y ago
I would argue it's an Amazon referral engine framing itself as a book review site. They have optimized for purchases and not for reader happiness / quality. A competing site that is focused on surfacing books that the reader likes
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by sailfast 7y ago
This occurred to me as well. At a minimum it would seem like a good idea for a larger Ag business to work with a competitor to bring Deere back to that line of thinking. The farmer in the article that hooked up their own Satellite steering
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by sailfast 7y ago
I’m with you - I had to ask my wife to change my Twitter password and not tell me. Facebook was easier. When I have to access for local community things I use Firefox Focus. It’s still addictive, but my sessions are fewer. That said, I’m st
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by sailfast 7y ago
I know this is crazy but one can also just not install social apps on one’s phone, and continue to use all the functions that still provide a great deal of utility without compromises.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed, especially given the 2-4K you have to plonk down on some of these things. They sound great, but I haven't yet used them. The money thing is a barrier, and I'm a one-car family looking for options. For that kind of money, y
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by sailfast 7y ago
Thanks for this - watching the documentary is the correct answer! I’ll get right on it.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Yeah - my money would be in Venezuela or Cuba.
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by sailfast 7y ago
Pretty sure Venezuela is not an extradition country? Also wasn’t Assange holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy? Cuba probably would hold on to someone, as well.
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by sailfast 7y ago
The funny thing is that the local burgh paper needs that subscription or it will not be there in a couple of years. They need it a lot more than NYtimes, perhaps who has a bigger global base. My answer to this is yes, absolutely, I will log
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by sailfast 7y ago
I think the Project Naptha extension by the folks that wrote this library will do that, no? https://projectnaptha.com/ Not sure if it only reads at those coordinates vs. OCRing the whole thing (for example if you were legal
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by sailfast 7y ago
I haven't watched the whole thing but this lesson from Barry Harris (and the whole Lincoln Center Jazz Academy) is pretty great for thinking about harmony, solos, and improvisation / voicing: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed - I'd say most of the world will be in deeper trouble than the Netherlands since they've been completely ignoring these issues. Most of the coast of Florida comes to mind. The number of homes on small canals that connect di
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by sailfast 7y ago
There are seven "best of" seasons on Prime with 10-15 episodes each, highlighting most of the milestone episodes with the things you remember. Most of the answer to these things is "It's on prime" or "It's
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by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed, however the idea that because [expensive boutique firm] was consulted on X means that now the organization has no choice but to defer to their [insert maniacal conspiracy purpose here] recommendation doesn't pass the sniff test
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by sailfast 7y ago
The title of this article is "How McKinsey infiltrated the world of Global Public Health" and the straight answer is: "The WHO hired them, and sometimes the Gates foundation prefers their money is used to hire consultancies&q
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by sailfast 7y ago
This is a great write-up - thanks to the author and for their continued work in this space to bring home the consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. Leaflet is an amazing library and I've found it a very useful and powerful tool wi
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by sailfast 7y ago
Concur - some of the contrasts would need to be improved for the palettes to be accessible. I found this particularly true with dark backgrounds and light hyperlink text. Great effort on the site though - was fun to look through to look at
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by sailfast 7y ago
Came here to say this. I'm not sure their bankruptcy was a given at the time, but I do wonder how much money they took out of the deal in exchange for cheap debt that the company is now defaulting on. Franchisees took on all the risk h
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by sailfast 7y ago
A more realistic scenario is "why is my insurance more expensive than the new lower rate that everyone else is now getting? I used to pay the same amount as everybody else." If the models improve, you get lower costs provided ther
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by sailfast 7y ago
Precisely.
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by sailfast 7y ago
As someone that has also worked for large enterprises as well as government, I’d say that using agile can be another way to micromanage, but it can also be used in a way that improves product quality and impact while helping developers. Gen
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by sailfast 7y ago
Are you sure you haven’t just always been micromanaged and this is another way for that to happen? All things can be abused for bad purposes. I haven’t heard too many examples of “oh man we used to be free and ship great features on time bu
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by sailfast 7y ago
Agreed, provided one is not so aggressive at preventing the questions you list that you effectively chill the environment for questions out of fear subsequent questions are “the bad ones”. That for sure is a much worse outcome than the occa
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by sailfast 7y ago
I understand why you’re there, and I’m with you having worked as a consultant in this role a number of places. Once you’re in the seat there’s a way to do it right. The OP’s point about morale impact,however, still stands regardless of a co
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by sailfast 7y ago
GSA gets a cut of contract purchases that go through them but this makes sense because it incentivized them to be better alternatives than an agency’s own contract shops. Typically working through a GSA schedule like this can lead to faster
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by sailfast 7y ago
But... it’s not your shared idea. It’s their idea, and the company didn’t have a process in place to let them present it except through your consulting engagement. Sure, if it’s a good outcome for the employee to work with you to get things
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by sailfast 7y ago
> The consulting firm’s sway at ICE grew to the point that McKinsey’s staff even ghostwrote a government contracting document that defined the consulting team’s own responsibilities and justified the firm’s retention, a contract extensio
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by sailfast 7y ago
Thanks.
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by sailfast 7y ago
It's hard to engage in alternate history, but NATO as an organization was formed to ensure that European democratic governments remained that way immediately following World War II, and until the fall of the Berlin wall. Keeping the Ru

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